Δ PING List Of PCs Script With Offline/Online Logs +Uses The Offline Machines As The New Workstation List+Looping Written by Eddie Jackson on Day, 11/30/2009 xx:xx:00 PM [filed under Shell]
Okay, you're right, you saw something similar to this last month, however now there has been notable additions made to the script. The original ping'd a list of workstations from a text file, and recorded the results in a single, time-stamped text file. Now, there is the need to have separate online and offline logs, along with some way to use the offline machine names as our new workstations.txt file; we need to loop the script, never pinging an online machine name twice. So we accomplished all this by adding a second variable OutputFile2 as our offline list, the script cycles through the workstations.txt text file pinging each machine. The online responses go into the online text file and the offline responses go into the offline text file. Now the cool part, the offline machine names also get written into a newlist.txt file. After ping is done with our workstation list, the workstations.txt gets deleted, the newlist.txt gets renamed to workstations.txt. This keeps any "online" machines from getting ping'd more than once, as only offline machines now exist in the workstations.txt list. Repeats every 60 minutes. Nice!
Here are our specs:
Must ping a computer Must cycle through workstation list text file Must have online log Must have offline log Must Loop Must not ping an online machine more than once
@rem ************************************************************************************ @rem Script Language: Shell @rem Script Name: PINGQ.cmd @rem Purpose: PING a list of workstations, writing to OFFLINE and ONLINE logs every hour @rem Creation Date: 11/30/09 @rem Last Modified: @rem Directions: double-click the PINGQ.cmd @rem Author: Eddie Jackson @rem Email: MrNetTek@gmail.com @rem ************************************************************************************
@ECHO OFF title=Pinging list of computers &color 9e
:MAIN cls ::datestamp for /f "tokens=2-4 skip=1 delims=(-./)" %%i in ('echo.^|date') do ( for /f "tokens=1-4 delims=-./ " %%m in ('date /t') do ( (set dow=%%m)&(set %%i=%%n)&(set %%j=%%o)&(set yy=%%p) ) ) For /F "tokens=1,2 delims=:, " %%i in ('TIME /T') Do (Set HHMM=%%i%%j)
ΔHow To Add An Expiration Date To Your Script Written by Eddie Jackson on Day, 11/28/2009 xx:xx:00 PM [filed under Shell]
Let's say have you a great little script, it does exactly what you want it do. You burn it to a CDR or put it on a flash/jump drive and send it out to your end-users. But now you realize that the script will need to be updated and sent out quarterly, and the staff should not re-use older scripts. How do programmatically make sure that the end-users won't be using old scripts on old media? Well, I'm glad you asked. You will have to program an expiration date at the beginning of your code. It will compare their current date to the static date you have set, and voila you now have a way to "expire" your script. Here it is....
Proof of concept:
Make your script expire
@echo off
FOR /F "TOKENS=1* DELIMS= " %%A IN ('DATE/T') DO SET CDATE=%%B
FOR /F "TOKENS=1,2 eol=/ DELIMS=/ " %%A IN ('DATE/T') DO SET mm=%%B
FOR /F "TOKENS=1,2 DELIMS=/ eol=/" %%A IN ('echo %CDATE%') DO SET dd=%%B
FOR /F "TOKENS=2,3 DELIMS=/ " %%A IN ('echo %CDATE%') DO SET yyyy=%%B
SET datedone=%yyyy%%mm%%dd%
if %datedone% GTR 20100201 Echo Time has expired & GoTo EXPIRED
Echo Time has not expired
I do a little date parsing and add a single condition that if yes goes to EXPIRED which jumps to the end of the script (over all the main code) and lets end-user know the script has expired.
Δ How To Create Hidden Launch Using Batch Written by Eddie Jackson on Day, 11/03/2009 xx:xx:00 PM [filed under Shell]
Everyone has needed at one time or another the ability to launch a large batch file setup...however, you couldn't seem to get rid of the infamous console window, the command prompt, the "DOS" window. This is how you would change the security context and launch your main process called MAIN.CMD completely hidden. Note: you could have easily used only VBScript with the sanur.exe to also make this completely silent
Here are our specs:
Change security context Launch a batch file silently
@ECHO OFF @REM Script Language: Shell @REM Author: Eddie Jackson @REM Date: 11/21/09 @REM Purpose: Proof of concept for silent batch file
ΔScan IIS Log For - 500 Type Errors Written by Eddie Jackson on Day, 11/xx/2009 xx:xx:00 PM [filed under VBScript]
For my reference:
Here are our specs:
Scan IIS log for 500 type errors Echo to screen the 500 type errors
'L A N G U A G E 'VBScript ' 'S C R I P T N A M E 'Scan_iis.vbs ' 'P U R P O S E To scan iis log for -500 errors and outputs results to screen. ' 'U S A G E Launch file ' 'A U T H O R 'Eddie S. Jackson ' 'D A T E C R E A T E D '11/19/09
Dim strFilename, obj, objTS, strLine
strFilename = "IIS.log" Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set objTS = objFSO.OpenTextFile(strFilename) Do Until objTS.AtEndOfStream strLine = objTS.ReadLine If InStr(1,strLine," - 500") <> 0 Then WScript.Echo strLine End If Loop objTS.Close
ΔDevcon.exe Written by Eddie Jackson on Day, 11/xx/2009 xx:xx:00 PM [filed under General]
For my reference:
The DevCon utility is a command-line utility that acts as an alternative to Device Manager. Using DevCon, you can enable, disable, restart, update, remove, and query individual devices or groups of devices. DevCon also provides information that is relevant to the driver developer and is not available in Device Manager.
Device Console Help: devcon.exe [-r] [-m:\\] [...] -r if specified will reboot machine after command is complete, if needed.
classfilter
Allows modification of class filters.
classes
List all device setup classes.
disable
Disable devices that match the specific hardware or instance ID.
driverfiles
List driver files installed for devices.
drivernodes
Lists all the driver nodes of devices.
enable
Enable devices that match the specific hardware or instance ID.
find
Find devices that match the specific hardware or instance ID.
findall
Find devices including those that are not present.
help
Display this information.
hwids
Lists hardware ID's of devices.
install
Manually install a device.
listclass
List all devices for a setup class.
reboot
Reboot local machine.
remove
Remove devices that match the specific hardware or instance ID.
rescan
Scan for new hardware.
resources
Lists hardware resources of devices.
restart
Restart devices that match the specific hardware or instance ID.
stack
Lists expected driver stack of devices.
status
List running status of devices.
update
Manually update a device.
UpdateNI
Manually update a device without user prompt
SetHwID
Adds, deletes, and changes the order of hardware IDs of root-enumerated devices.
